{"id":224598,"date":"2026-02-21T12:23:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T10:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-ifc-backs-five-egypt-projects-in-climate-finance-healthcare-and-smes\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T12:23:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T10:23:24","slug":"egypt-ifc-backs-five-egypt-projects-in-climate-finance-healthcare-and-smes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-ifc-backs-five-egypt-projects-in-climate-finance-healthcare-and-smes\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: IFC Backs Five Egypt Projects in Climate Finance, Healthcare and SMEs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The International Finance Corporation signed five projects in Egypt focused on climate finance, healthcare, food security and small business support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The agreements were signed during a visit by IFC Vice President for Africa Ethiopis Tafara and alongside a sustainable finance forum co-hosted with the Central Bank of Egypt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">The largest project is a $150 million investment with Banque Misr to expand green finance. The funding will support energy efficiency, renewable energy, sustainable transport&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602200335.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Finance Corporation signed five projects in Egypt focused on climate finance, healthcare, food security and small business support. The agreements were signed during a visit by IFC Vice President for Africa Ethiopis Tafara and alongside a sustainable finance forum co-hosted with the Central Bank of Egypt. The largest project is a $150 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":224599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,7102,6239,4697,415,7829,12370,10045,257,6039,5997,254],"class_list":["post-224598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-backs","tag-climate","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-finance","tag-healthcare","tag-ifc","tag-news","tag-projects","tag-smes","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}